Don’t forget the sage advice of my friend, witty commentator extraordinaire Tim Slagle. Halloween is a perfect opportunity to teach the concept of progressive taxation. When your little crumb crunchers come in with their big sacks of candy, teach them the concept of “take home candy.” Check it out here. (You will need to scroll down to “Tax Bit.”)Presto! You’re raising a young conservative.

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I don’t know about you, but I find John Fonda Kerry’s latest episode of foot-in-mouth disease hilarious. If you haven’t heard, this one involves the following statement he made in California on 10/29/06:

“You know, education–if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

Here’s the video.

This gaffe’s even better than last December when he said our troops should stop terrorizing Iraqi women and children because that’s the Iraqi troops’ job. What makes this one so rich is Kerry’s reaction to the outrage over his supercilious remarks about the brave members of our military. Obviously this guy never heard the wise words “when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”

Watching John Kerry repeatedly step in it reminds me of that Aesop’s fable about the scorpion and the frog. As Luis Aguilar Leon wrote in the Miami Herald back in 1999,

“Old but always timely is the fable of the scorpion and the frog. It goes like this:
A scorpion asks a frog for help crossing a river. Intimidated by the scorpion’s prominent stinger, the frog demurs.
“Don’t be scared,” the scorpion says. “If something happens to you, I’ll drown.” Moved by this logic, the frog puts the scorpion on his back and wades into the river. Half way across, the scorpion stings the frog.
The dying frog croaks, “How could you — you know that you’ll drown?”
“It’s my nature,” gasps the sinking scorpion.
Every dictator ends up adopting the scorpion’s nature.”

Interestingly, this article is about Fidel Castro, but the analysis applies equally well to the pests in the democrat party, who being socialists themselves, would probably be flattered. Why do they diss our military? Why are they, as President Bush said last week, genetically predisposed to raise our taxes? Why do they prefer to fight the Bush administration instead of terrorists? It’s simple. Just like the scorpion, it’s their nature. Fortunately, the democrats are having a tough time wearing the ill-fitting Halloween mask of God-fearing, gun-rights-respecting, gay-marriage opposing, pro-life point of view, in other words, conservative, so much so that they are inadvertently ripping it off their own faces. Kerry unmasked himself and showed the country what knowledgeable observers have seen he is from first time we saw his long face and heard his longer, droning speeches; that is, a liberal elitist who has despised the military his entire adult life. And don’t give me that baloney about how he “supports the troops” because he served in Viet Nam. (No really. He did.) If he weren’t predisposed to think the worst of U.S. troops, could he possibly have bought into the slander about U.S. troops in Viet Nam fronted by Jane Fonda, the Winter Soldier investigation? It’s also clear that the Man with Melting Face has zero respect for the intelligence of the voters. A poorly-told joke about President Bush? Does he really think we’re stupid enough to buy that pathetic excuse? Yes he does, but sadly for the other insects in his party, we aren’t.

It’s not just the issue of the standard democrat M.O. of demoralizing and decimating the military, which will certainly happen with the Rug Puller Party in charge. Charles Rangel is already threatening to defund the war in Iraq.Consider this statement from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi:

“We have not had significant issues addressed from an oversight standpoint — we’ve not issued one subpoena,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who as ranking member of the House Homeland Security Department is in line to lead the panel. “Leadership, in agreement with the chairman, just decided that it [investigations] was not a priority,” Mr. Thompson said. “That will not be a problem with the new Congress.”

Not even one little subpoena? What do you guys think we sent you there for? To actually do something constructive? We want more show trials like those idiotic baseball steroid hearings. If it weren’t for the fact that they plan to do all they can to gum up the administration’s attempts to keep maniacs from killing all of us, this investigation agenda wouldn’t be the worst way to keep the democrats occupied, sort of like putting a cranky 3 year old in front of the TV to keep him from playing with matches. In this case, the matches are taxes. Charlie Rangel, salivating at the thought of become chairman of the Ways and Means committee, has been driven to the brink of insanity because some, including Vice President Cheney, have pointed out that if the American people make the mistake of putting democrats in charge, our taxes will go up. Rangel says that Vice President Cheney needs to go to rehab, but I the addiction that needs treating is the democrats’ jones for raising taxes. And the guy out of his mind is anyone who votes for democrats a week from today.

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Or should I say call him? Barack Obama, that is. OK, I know that not that many people call him that, but based on this little noted item from the Liberal Death Star (the New York Times) regarding He Who Walks on Water and his wayward youth:

“Mr. Obama had written in his first book, “Dreams From My Father” (1995), before entering politics, that he had used marijuana and cocaine (“maybe a little blow”). He said he had not tried heroin because he did not like the pusher who was trying to sell it to him.
In an interview here on Monday conducted by David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, at a meeting of the American Society of Magazine Editors, Mr. Obama said he was not making light of the subject.
“It was reflective of the struggles and confusion of a teenage boy,” he said. “Teenage boys are frequently confused.”

Yes, in my experience, but most of the confusion surrounds issues like choosing a college, or in a more unfortunate case, whether to try to get your older brother to buy you a six pack. Why in the world would the smartest man to ever walk the planet write something like this unnecessary, and yes, trivializing admission? Is this some sort of attempt to bolster his street cred, yet another example of his desperate need to be all things to all people? A pitch for the junkie vote? “Sure, I’m strait-laced now, but I’m still street. After all, I came this close to riding the White Horse, and ending up strung out in the gutter.” The cult of Obama can spin this remark as yet more evidence of his “diverse” background, but to me it just sounds cavalier, and given the subject, repellant.

Perhaps if his father had been around he wouldn’t have been so confused, a fact conveniently never mentioned by any of the fawning MSM types who worship the ground he walks on. Oh, wait … was mentioning that insensitive?

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If you missed one of the 6 or 7 celebrations held so far, you might not realize that in August, ex-President (or should I say Triple X President) Bill Clinton turned 60. Chelsea and Hillary decided that what’s one more birthday party for this egomaniac, and besides, it could be a money maker. So they sent out 10,000 invitations to their rich friends, telling them that for $500,000, they could attend a 3-day blowout, featuring a live Rolling Stones concert. Supposedly the cash was going to go to Clinton’s foundation. What happened next is hilarious:

“The minimum price, with inferior concert seats and no brunch, was set at $60,000 (£31,000). But with many rich Democrats sending their regrets, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that last Wednesday the Clintons drastically slashed prices to $12,500 (£6,500) for one reception and the concert, or $5,000 (£2,600) for just the Stones.

With the looming possibility of Bill and his long-suffering wife and daughter finding themselves amid a sea of empty chairs at the 2,900-seat Manhattan venue, tickets then went on sale to the public for as little as $1,710 (£900).”

Oh, and now Mick might not even show up. He has a sore throat. Yeah right.
You can read the whole story here.

Once Howard Stern said something profound about the Clintons; that is, that the secret to their success is that you can’t embarrass them, and I think this story is a perfect illustration of the truth of that statement. What kind of narcissistic goofs think that their friends want to pay $1/2 to attend a “birthday party,” especially when the birthday was 2 months ago?

Clintons, can’t you just take the hint and go away?

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This headline from Thursday’s Miami Herald is priceless: “Cuba examining socialism for flaws,” and check out the subhead:

“The Cuban government has launched a study with a surprising focus: What about socialism causes people to steal?”

There’s a real head scratcher, huh? Gee, guys, do you think it could be the fact that Hollywood’s favorite commie dictator has been stealing the work product, not to mention the freedom, of every soul unfortunate enough to be imprisoned in that hellhole of a country?

Speaking of El Commandante, which of the following do you suppose causes his admiring friends like Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone more discomfort: (a) the treatment of average citizens in Cuba, including those thrown in tiny dirt-floored, vermin-infested cells for the crime of reading certain books, writing something critical of the government or attempting to leave (b) the head choppers living on our dime at Gitmo, eating orange-glazed chicken and rice pilaf, and reading U.S. government issued Korans? There’s another real mystery.

The good news for Barbara Walters, Spielberg, Stone, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte is that according to the latest reports, Fidel Castro is not dead after all. State television showed him reading a newspaper aloud, which hardly seems necessary. The liberals are always telling us that, notwithstanding the food shortages, censorship, and executions, all of which suggest a really high misery index by my way of thinking, Cuba’s a socialist paradise because it has such a high literacy rate.

I can’t wait to read the results of the Cuban government’s study. I suspect that they will discover that socialism isn’t the problem after all, and that George W. Bush causes Cubans to steal.

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We’ve enjoyed quite a few laughs over the years watching the collection of material from moonbat blogs pretending to be a news program called “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” and when I say “we” I mean a couple thousand people on a good day. You probably didn’t hear about what I’m about to tell you, but last week the junior senator from our state of Illinois, whose name is apparently Barack Obama, went on a book tour and appeared on several television shows. I mention this fact since Sen. Obama has been in the Senate only 2 years, and other than accumulating a voting record that marks him as about half a commie in terms of his positions on issues, he hasn’t done much, so you may not have heard of him.
OK, not really. If you’re anything like me, after the last couple of weeks, you probably feel like getting a restraining order against Obama because it seems like he’s stalking you. It’s like some weird, scary movie you’d watch on Halloween (“the call’s coming from in the house!” or in this case, “from inside the television!” “on every page of your newspaper!”)
BO appeared on KO’s show on 10/18/06. The video is here. I found the interview about as fascinating as watching paint dry, as usual, when this guy starts babbling on in his above-the-fray, doublespeak, but I did find one comment quite interesting. It occurs at about 4 minutes and 15 seconds into the clip. Here’s the exchange:

OLBERMANN: My question to you, sir, has the power of the president been kept in check? Because it would seem to many over the past six years, Congress has failed to do that job, pretty much wrote President Bush a blank check, especially with the Military Commissions Act and this kind of terrifying watering-down of habeas corpus.

OBAMA: Well, first of all, I was talking to your producer, and I think the best segment you’ve done in a while, Keith, was that checklist around the habeas corpus issue.

The link to the transcript is here.

You can watch the segment that He Who Walks on Water liked so much here. It’s the typical Olbermann take on an issue; that is, the sort of puerile nonsense you’d expect from a former sportscaster pretending to be a Constitutional scholar. Keith, Dude, you need to re-read this statute, the Military Commissions Act. (Yeah right.) It establishes military commissions and denies habeas corpus only to alien enemy combatants, who didn’t have it in the first place, but who under this law are given the right to challenge their detention. So what the heck are you guys whining about? I know that terrorists can never have enough rights in your view, but this carping about a non-existent beef is RIDICULOUS. And this is the point of view that the brilliant senator, the rock star who would be president, agrees with? I wonder why Tim Russert didn’t ask him about that last Sunday. Oh I know …like 99.9% of people on the planet, he probably doesn’t watch Olbermann’s silly show.

Here’s another interesting thing about Barack’s praise for Olbermann’s mush-headed and inaccurate critique of the Military Commissions Act. As this writer notes, when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in the cause of ending slavery, the Keith Olbermann’s of the day said exactly the same thing about President Abraham Lincoln that they are currently saying about George W. Bush. So, Sen. Obama, Mr. Audacity of Hope, I guess would have been on the side of slaveholders. I guess it’s a good thing there weren’t more people like him in 1863, and especially good for him, since he could have been born into very different circumstances if his point of view had prevailed.

For more about He Who Walks Water, click here.

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The current controversy over Michael J. Fox’s appearance in a political ad for democrats gives us another opportunity to look inside the well-worn liberal playbook to see the tactics they use to try to trick people into voting for them.

Obfuscation
A liberal arguing issues is what Monet is to painting; that is, from a distance all the colors blur together and appear to create a pleasing image, but up close, it’s clear that what you have is just random blobs of paint, or in the case of the liberal, the discarding of important facts that are crucial to making a rational decision about the subject at hand. In this particular case, the liberals simply scream “They are against stem cell research! They are against cures!” leaving out the critical distinctions between embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), which has not shown much promise and adult stem cell research (ASCR) which has, and the fact that what is usually being discussed is not “outlawing” ESCR, but whether the government should fund it.

Exploitation of Real Human Beings as Mascots
In this case, the use of a person who is not only suffering from a hideous, progressive disease, but who many Americans grew to love from his many acting roles as a likeable, funny, clever guy. The hope is that those of us who want to point out the fact that liberals are telling only part of the story to try to deceive the voters will be intimidated for fear of being accused of attacking a person for whom everyone feels deep sympathy. It’s cynical and ironic, since isn’t the liberals who are outraged by American Indian college mascots like Chief Illiniwek? Which is more exploitative: a college student who dresses up in a costume and dances around at half time for the amusement of the fans or the use of an actual living, suffering human being for political expediency?

Attempts to Set One Group Against Another
In the ad, Mr. Fox states “as you know, I care deeply about stem cell research. In Missouri, you can elect Claire McCaskill, who shares my hope for cures. Unfortunately, Sen. Jim Talent opposes expanding stem cell research. Sen. Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us a chance for hope.” So Jim Talent is against curing Michael J. Fox? Democrats want cures and Republicans want ravaging diseases to go unchecked? It’s ridiculous on its face, but it’s not surprising that the dems would say it. These are the guys who say that Republicans want to starve children, force everyone to drink dirty water and make Grandma choose between food and medicine. Whether it’s trying to set men against women, rich against poor, one race against another or in this case, the tragically sick against those who oppose ESCR, it’s sad that democrats can’t persuade voters without manufacturing classes of battling victim groups and stirring up artificial conflict between them. At the risk of stating the obvious, let me say here and now that everyone wants Michael J. Fox to get well, not just democrats.

The Creation of a Phony Issue
There is no ban on ESCR, and if Michael J. Fox or anyone else wants to invest in the many private firms doing it, he is free to do so. That would be a better use of his time and energy than participating in this disinformation campaign. The liberals hope that dullards and emotionally-driven types will be so overcome with sadness over the sick and the suffering that they will forget that electing democrats means higher taxes, liberal activist federal judges, amnesty for illegal aliens, and most important, civil rights for terrorists and a weakening of national security.

Ads like this one do a disservice to the debate by clouding the issue and contributing to the confusion of the voters, which is of course precisely what the democrats want.

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Former German chancellor/dictator apologist Gerhard Schroeder joins the chorus of nitwits who believe that there is very little difference between fundamentalist Christians and the passel of murderous throat slitters we’ve come to call Islamofacists:

In his new book, he writes: “Quite rightly, we criticize that in most Islamic states the role of religion in society and the secular character of the legal system are not clearly separated,” he said. “But we haven’t taken note as readily of the U.S. Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the Bible that show similar tendencies.”

Oh sure, because we all know about the well-known propensity for Christian fundamentalists to chop off the heads of those who dare to profess a different religious faith. They also love to blow themselves up and kill innocent people in the process. Oh wait …let me check my notes …no, that’s the Islamic fanatics.

He also writes that before the Iraq war he was wary of President Bush’s political judgement. Why? Because he said the “G” word, as in God. What could be more frightening than a president who believes in the Almighty? Imagine what Mr. Schroeder would have thought of President Lincoln. No doubt that he was another dangerous, scary, irrational screwball. And do you suppose he might think the same thing about the crank who runs Iran, who in his a 2005 U.N. raving called for the reappearance of some character called the 12th iman, who apparently is living deep down in a well somewhere. Some reports say that the Persian Dennis Kucinich likes to communicate with this dirt dweller.

“Since the presidential elections in Iran, many bizarre stories and rumors have circulated about Ahmadinejad. Many of them are related to his devotion to the 12th Imam, also known as Imam Mahdi, who according to Muslims has disappeared and will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.

During his September speech at the UN, Ahmadinejad called for the reappearance of the 12th Imam.

In mid-November, during a speech to Friday prayers leaders from across Iran, Ahmadinejad said that the main mission of the revolution is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Ima[/tag]m.

In recent weeks, the president’s aides have denied a rumor that he ordered his cabinet to write a pact of loyalty with the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom, where some believe the Imam is hiding.

Ahmadinejad’s supporters said such rumors are being circulated about the president by opponents in efforts to defame him.”

No chance that the former German chancellor will defame him, though, or even speak a word of criticism against him. That’s reserved for President Bush, who is obviously much more frightening.

Should we really be surprised at these comments coming from one of these European nuts, especially this guy, who loves to cozy up to tyrants of every stripe, and who is part of the whole “aren’t we Europeans sophisticated and superior because we’re secular and post-Christian?” How long will it be before Angela Merkel is wearing a burka? Oh yeah–these are the people we want to take direction from,and would have been had John “Global Test” Kerry been elected.

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That’s an order, from the state of Ohio:

“Two northeast Ohio counties are being ordered by the state to try to boost the number of Amish receiving food stamps.
Geauga and Holmes counties plan to start advertising campaigns to encourage Amish to enroll in the subsidy program. Holmes may use a billboard to get the message out.
State officials saidt’s important that the Amish know the benefit is available.
But county officials question whether the effort is a waste of time and money. Amish oppose accepting government assistance.
The head of the Geauga Department of Job and Family Services says no matter how much they do, the Amish won’t sign up.”

Damn self-reliant Amish! What is their problem? Speaking of problems, is it any wonder that the Republican party in Ohio is in trouble? Aren’t they in charge of the state government? At least for the time being …

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Here’s another MSM story about President Bush’s campaigning for Don Sherwood and George Allen, by Jennifer Loven entitled “Bush stumps for adulterer, candidate accused of slurs.” This headline is even closer to the one I posited for Dana Milbank’s story earlier this morning. **Scroll down to the next post to read it***

What do I always say? Never doubt me!

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